Sprachwissenschaft

Prosodies

<p><em>Prosodies</em>, in the broad Firthian sense, covers phenomena that extend over stretches of segmental and featural units that must be examined with respect to their intera...

New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research

<p><strong><em>"New Directions offers the best graduate/professional level introduction to the field of interpersonal communication currently available. It is compact, access...

Popular Shakespeare

S. Purcell

In recent years, the 'Popular Shakespeare' phenomenon has become ever more pervasive: in fringe productions, mainstream theatre, or the mass media, Shakespeare is increasingly constructed ...

The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism

<p>As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an increasing impo...

Metapher, Allegorie, Symbol

Gerhard Kurz

Für die 5., nunmehr in der KLEINEN REIHE V&R erscheinende Auflage hat Gerhard Kurz den seit 1982 vielfach bewährten Standardband vollständig durchgesehen und das Literaturverzeichnis aktual...

Learning to be Literate

Prof. Viv Edwards

Learning to be Literate

Prof. Viv Edwards

Inklusion und Exklusion im Kontext prekärer Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsmarktchancen

Kirsten Puhr

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. <ul> <li>A compr...

The Rhetoric of RHETORIC

Wayne C. Booth

In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely.<br /> <ul> <li style="list-st...

Sweet Violence

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton's <i>Tragedy</i> provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-...

The Future of Environmental Criticism

Lawrence Buell

Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement.<br /> <ul class="noindent"> <li>...

The Novel

<i>The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900–2000</i> is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century.<br /> &...

Tragedy

Rebecca Bushnell

<p><b><i>Tragedy: A Short Introduction</i> reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from...

Konzepte objektorientierter Programmierung

Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter

Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die Konzepte objektorientierter Programmierung. Es erläutert das Objekt- und Klassenkonzept, beschreibt Kapselungstechniken und geht detailliert auf S...

Derrida und danach?

Media and Mediation

An Introduction to Language Policy

<p><b><i>An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method</i> is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the major theories and methods currently employed ...

Thinking Syntactically

Liliane Haegeman

<p><b><i>Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis</i> is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and t...

Understanding Minimalist Syntax

Cedric Boeckx

<p><b><i>Understanding Minimalist Syntax</i> introduces the logic of the Minimalist Program by analyzing well-known descriptive generalizations about long-distance dependen...